{"id":36319,"date":"2013-06-19T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36319"},"modified":"2013-06-19T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:57:22","slug":"alex-minsky-wounded-marine-underwear-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36319","title":{"rendered":"Alex Minsky; wounded Marine &#038; underwear model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMLJgLs0jc0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Marine Alex Minsky lost his leg to roadside bomb in Afghanistan. He was in a coma for nearly two months and fought his way back upright. Then understandably, turned to alcohol and fought his way back from that, too. From ABC News;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;I was down,&#8221; the Calif.-based Minsky told <a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/u-marine-alex-minsky-returns-war-underwear-model-140221544.html?vp=1\">ABC News<\/a>. &#8220;I was numb and I was running away from everything\u2026especially myself, my own head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minsky suffered from depression and turned to alcohol to cope until he decided to fight back by stopping drinking and starting to work out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to run anymore,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I wanted to face my problems instead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was at the gym that Minsky got his big break when he was spotted by a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He approached me and said, &#8216;Have you ever modeled? Like what are you? What are you doing?'&#8221; Minsky recalled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now he&#8217;s an underwear model and he wants to be a role model for other victims of trauma. Thanks to Andy and Ex-PH2 for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, Marine Alex Minsky lost his leg to roadside bomb in Afghanistan. He was in &hellip; <a title=\"Alex Minsky; wounded Marine &#038; underwear model\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36319\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alex Minsky; wounded Marine &#038; underwear model<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}